RUSSIAN CLOTHES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28821, 16 February 1959, Page 11

RUSSIAN CLOTHES

Khrushchev Critical (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) MOSCOW, February 14. Mr Khrushchev has told Russians to consign their padded jackets to the museums. Urging improvements in clothes, the Soviet Prime Minister told workers at a machine-tool factory at Ryazan, near Moscow: “I am not shortsighted. That is why I can see Where things are going well—and in this field they are going badly.” “Many still walk about in padded jackets, Characteristic of the reign of Nicholas II.” (Nicholas 11, the last tsar, was executed by the revolutionaries in 1918) “Now it is high time to consign them to the museums,” he said. “Using the same cloth, we must make a different type of clothing—better looking and of better quality,” he said. His speech, delivered on Thursday and reported yesterday by Tass, the Soviet news agency, was addressed to thousands of workers, and ranged over many, topics.

He said that when he told the Soviet Communist Party Congress that Russia had put intercontinental ballistic missiles into serial production, some Western leaders had automatically expressed doubts. z

But they immediately had second thoughts, and decided that if the Russians said so it must be so. In this they were correct It was “really true,” Mr Khrushchev said.